A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”
An early rare documentary by Jiří Menzel

An idiosyncratic reflection on the film "Skrivánci na niti " and its history, newly shot by the director specially for this DVD release.

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their lives in spite of the opera.

In beautiful sunny afternoon in Prague, a man of a certain age discusses his love of Provence. Suddenly, a black flag is suspended. The composer Foerster died.
Graduation film of director Jirí Menzel.

This 1978 film, set in 1907, is a tribute commemorating the 80th year of Czechoslovak filmmaking. Among the accomplishments of Czechoslovak filmmakers of the period are, the improvement on the Lumière camera and the creation of a commercially viable indigenous cinema years before Berlin. Czechoslovak films were sufficiently distinctive and plentiful to make a notable contribution to world cinema of the time. In this movie, the filming of several one-reel movies of the period is re-enacted ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide.

1918年，捷克斯拉夫成立，这是捷克人民首次拥有自己的祖国。伊利·曼佐藉古喻今地运用了出身卑微、亟欲挤身上流阶层的暴发户，总是能让女人们神魂颠倒的风流公爵，一群被利欲薰心的凡夫俗子，以及热恋中的年轻男女，编织出这部甚具魅力的卧房喜剧。新时代来临了，还是美好的往日不复存在呢？曼佐完成本片的同年，捷克也发生了“丝绒革命”。

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...

1980 film by Jiří Menzel

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false biographies; insurance agents visit an eccentric painter/goat farmer and his mother; guests at a wedding reception remain oblivious to outlying misery; and a working-class boy romances a Roma girl.

1990 film by Jiří Menzel

1984 film by Jiří Menzel

2006 film by Jiří Menzel

這是伊利曼佐1985年的傑作，不僅讓他在近二十年後再度得到奧斯卡的肯定，也讓缺席已久的捷克電影重新擄獲國際影壇的注目。主角是個智能不足的孤兒，平常擔任農場司機的助手，雖然鬧出不少笑話，但兩人情同父子，直到一次重大錯誤，讓司機成為全村笑柄，他一氣之下決定結束兩人合作關係。善良單純的傻子決定告別家園，到布拉格林礦公司另覓新職，他能適應截然不同的都市生活？他能放得下這個古怪卻可愛的小村嗎？曼佐對小鎮活潑多樣的素描，纖細而動人。IMDB评分：8.0

1966 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.